Cuspidor-lifter.



E. B. KNAPP.

CUSPIDOR LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5. 1911.

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E. B. KNAPP.

CUSPIDOR LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, I911.

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EDWARD BURKE KNAPP, OF SAN JACINTO, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedAug. 6, 19 18.

Application filed May 5, 1917. Serial No. 166,704,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Jacinto, in the county of Riverside and State of California, have invented a new and useful Guspidor-Lifter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cuspidor lifters, one of its objects being to provide a simple, light, compact, and etficient device of this character which can be used for gripping cuspidors so that they can be easily carried from place to place before and after cleanmg. g

A further object is to provide lifters which can be held tightly in engagement with a cuspidor, one form of the lifter being insertible into a cuspidor and then expanded to engage the walls thereof, while other forms can be placed outsideof the cuspidor and contracted so as to grip the same.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully I described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred forms of the invention have been shown.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is an elevation of a lifter inserted into and engaging a cuspidor.

Fig. 2 is a section through the lifter, the same being shown contracted.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of a modified form of lifter, the engaged cuspidor being shown by dotted lines.

Fig. 5 isan elevation of form collapsed.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 designates a head formed by folding a strip of metal to produce terminal eyes 2. To this head is secured a bail 3 formed of a strip of sheet metal. Pivotally mounted in each of the eyes 2 is a spring 7 said modified wire 4 having crossed arms 5, each of which terminates at its free end in an outwardly projecting finger 6. Slidably mounted on all of the arms below their points of crossing, is a disk7, to the center of which is attached a rod 8. This rod is slidably mounted in the head 1 and also in the midlde portion of the bail 3, and the upper or free the lower portion of the bail 3 extends between the eyes 2, thus serving to space apart those portions of the wires 4 seated in the e es.

When the lifter is not in use it can be collapsed by grasping the bail 3 in one hand and the rod 8 in the other hand. The rod can then be moved longitudinally so as to cause disk 7 to slide along the diverging arms 5, thus to draw the free ends of the arms toward each other and cause the fingers likewise to be moved toward each other.

This relative arrangement has been shown in Fig. 2.

With the lifter collapsed, it can be inserted readily into a cuspidor C and by then pulling on the rod 8 while the arms 5 are held inserted into the cuspidor, the arms 5 can be caused to move outwardly away from each other, thus to bring the lingers 6 into engagement with the wall of the cuspidor under the inwardly projecting or overhanging portion 0 of the wall of the cuspidor. With. the parts thus located, as shown in Fig.1, the cuspidor can be lifted and'carried from place to place, and can be deposited readily simply by reversing the relative movement of the parts of the holder or lifter, thus to move the fingers 6 toward each other and out of engagement with the wall of the cuspidor.

In Figs. 4 and 5 another form of device has been shown. This form is designed to engage the outer surfaces of the wall and bottom of the cuspidor. This structure is similar tothe' One illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, but dilfers therefrom in that the terminal fingers 10 are extended inwardly toward each other from the crossed arms 11 so that when the disk 7 is moved downwardly or away from the head 1, said fingers will be shifted toward each other and will be moved under the bottom of the cuspidor while the arms 11 are pressed against the outer surface of the wall of the cuspidor.

What is claimed is:

A device of the class described including a head comprising a fiat metal strip folded to provide terminal eyes, a strip of sheet metal having its lower portion seated between said eyes and its intermediate portion forming an upstanding bail, a spring wire pivotally mounted within each of the eyes and having crossed arms, said wires being spaced apart in the head by the lower portion of the bail, means at the free ends of the arms for engaging the object to be ln'testimon y' that I claim the foregoing lifted, a disk having apertures througl'l es my own, I have hereto aflixed my signa- Which the arms extend zind a nodexten'chng ture in: tl1e,p..l'esencepefi WQ Witnessesfrom the disk and through the interfitting v EDVUXRD BURKE KNAPP.

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the center of the bail, said rod and disk M. R. NIMs, being slidable'relative to the amuse-11 d strips. F; J. SHOVER.

@opflea ei this patent may be 'nbta'ine'd forfive cents each. by'addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

